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- Sadly, after just 13 months of marriage, Todd was killed March 22, 1958, in a plane crash while flying from Burbank to Tulsa. An investigation found that the plane, named “Lucky Liz” in honor of Taylor, was overloaded and flying too high.
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Feb 6, 2020 · In the late morning of March 21, 1958, Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, award-winning film and theater producer Mike Todd, called his close friend and neighbor Douglas across the street to his...
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Mike Todd was an American theater and film producer who died in a private plane accident in 1958. He was married to actress Elizabeth Taylor, the only one whom she did not divorce, and produced the 1956 Oscar-winning Around the World in 80 Days.
Mar 4, 2022 · Mike Todd, a film and theater producer, died in a plane crash in 1958 while flying to New York City. He was married to Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, who was pregnant with their daughter Liza at the time of his death.
- Leslie Veliz
Mar 9, 2022 · It crashed in New Mexico, killing everyone on board. The nature of the crash meant that hardly anything was left of the victims, who were identified using dental records. What little of Todd's remains could be collected were put in a rubber bag, which was placed in a heavy bronze casket and buried.
- Matt Reigle
Apr 7, 2015 · On March 22, 1958, movie producer Mike Todd lost his life when his leased private plane, a Lockheed Lodestar dubbed "Lucky Liz," crashed and burned in western New Mexico.
Jan 23, 2016 · One year after his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor and his controverisal best picture triumph at the 1957 Oscars for 'Around the World in 80 Days,' the flamboyant producer — an early master of the...
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The Civil Aeronautics Board said today that an engine failure, combined with an overload of gasoline and ice caused the plane crash that killed Mike Todd, the...